Knoxville Courthouse Blues
Hank Williams, Jr.

I'm sittin' in Knoxville courthouse ain't got a thing to do
I don't wanna go to the movies couldn't if I wanted to cuz I'm on trial for lovin' you
Now this all started in a honky tonk just the other side of town
A girl come in took a stool by me ordered gin and drank it down
She lit up a cigarette sexly turned around
Well she said my name is Jannie and asked me what was mine
I answered Hank as I walked to the jukebox droppin' a dime
checked out her short dress low neck line
Well we danced for five or ten minutes and I held her close to me
Kissed her lips and squeezed her hips and judged about twenty three
Whispered in my ears I said yes siree
Now the scene is a little motel out on the state highway
There in room 12 little love is about to take place
And a state trooper breaks down the door shines a flash light in my face
I said what the hell is this and another man and woman come in
And the girl I'm with starts cryin' and screamin' and she runs over to them
Said thank God you're here he tried to hurt me mama
I said now you don't mean the cop says son the girl is seventeen
So that's why I'm in Knoxville courthouse and the judge passed sentence on me
And it's ten long years for statutory rape in the state penitentiary
Lord I can't believe this is happened to me
So when next time you give a girl the eye she gives you that certain smile
Just remember under that woman's breast may beat the heart of a child
Don't you let yourself be the one to help a mixed up kids go wild
This story happened a lot that's true
But you better hope and pray it never happens to you


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  (i Heard That) Lonesome Whistle   127 Rose Avenue   A Country Boy Can Survive   A House of Gold   A Little Less Talk And A Lot More Action   A Mansion On The Hill   A Rainy Night in Georgia   After All They Used To Belong To Me   After You   All by Myself   All For The Love Of Sunshine   All I Can Give You Is My Heart   All I Had To Do   All In Alabama   All Jokes Aside   All My Rowdy Friends (have Settled Down)   All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight   All The Roads   Almost Nearly But Not Quite Plumb   Almost Persuaded   Always Loving You   America Will Survive   American Dream   Amos Moses   Another Place Another Time   Are You Lonely Too   Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way   Arms of Cocaine   At The First Fall Of Snow   Baby, We're Really in Love   Ballad Of Hank Williams   Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw   Be Careful Who You Love (arthur’s Song)   Been There, Done That   Before You Fell Out Of Love With Me   Beyond The Sunset   Big Midnight Special   Big River   Big Top Women   Big Twenty   Blizzard   Blood's Thicker Than Water   Blue Blue Day   Blueberry Hill   Blues Man   Born To Boogie   Both Sides of Goodbye   Brothers Of The Road   Bye Bye Love   Cajun Baby   Calling You   Can't You See   Canyonero   Chair That Rocked Us All   Cherokee   Clovis New Mexico   Coalition To Ban Coalitions   Cold Cold Heart   Cold, Cold Heart   Come And Go Blues   Confused   Conversation   Cool Water   Country Boy Can Survive   Country Love   Country Music (those Tear Jerking Songs)   Country State Of Mind   Cowpoke   Crazy Heart   Cross On The Highway   Cry Cry Darling   Cry, Cry Darling   Custody   Cut Bank, Montana   Darling You Know I Wouldn't Lie   Day Dreams   Day In The Life Of A Fool   Dear John   Detroit City   Devil in the Bottle   Dinosaur   Divorce Or Destroy   Dixie on My Mind   Doc Holliday   Dream That Woke Me Up   Driven Away   Early in the Morning and Late at Night   Eleven Roses   End Of A Bad Day   Endless Sleep   Everything Comes Down to Money and Love   Everything's Okay   Everytime I Hear That Song   Eyes Of Death   Family Tradition   Farm Song   Feelin Better   Finders Are Keepers   First Years Blues   Fly Trouble   Folsom Prison Blues   For Me There Is No Place   Forged By Fire   Funny Feelings   Games People Play   Getting Over You   Gibbonsville Gold   Give My Love To Rose   Glass   Go Girl Go   Goin' Home   Going Steady With The Blues   Good Leavin' Alone   Goodbye   Guess Things Happen That Way   Guess What That's Right She's Gone   Guitar Money   Gulf Shore Road   Half As Much   Hamburger Steak Holiday Inn   Hanging My Teardrops Out To Dry   Hank Hill Is The King   Happy Kind Of Sadness   Help Me Understand   Hey Porter   Hey, Good Lookin'   Hog Wild   Home Of The Blues   Homesick   Honky Tonk Blues   Honky Tonkin'   House Of Gold   Houston, We Have A Problem   How Can You Refuse Him Now   How Long Will You Keep Coming Back To Me   Howlin' At The Moon   I Ain't Sharin' Sharon   I Almost Lost My Mind   I Can Take Anything   I Can't Be Myself   I Can't Cry Back In   I Can't Decide   I Can't Help It   I Can't Help It (if I'm Still In Love With You)   I Can't Take It No Longer   I Don't Care (if Tomorrow Never Comes)   I Don't Have Anymore Love Songs   I Dreamed About Mama Last Night   I Fought The Law   I Got Rights   I Hope It Rains Today   I Just Ain't Been Able   I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'   I Know It's Not Been Easy Loving Me   I Love You A Thousand Ways   I Really Did   I Saw The Light   I Still Miss Someone   I Uncle John   I Walk The Line   I Was With Red Foley (the Night He Passed Away)   I Went To All That Trouble For Nothin'   I Won't Be Home No More   I Wouldn't Change A Thing About You   I'll Be A Bachelor Till I Die   I'll Follow You Up To Our Cloud   I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive   I'm A Long Gone Daddy   I'm Gonna Break Your Heart   I'm Gonna Sing   I'm In No Condition   I'm Just Crying Cause I Care   I'm One of You   I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry   I'm Sorry For You My Friend   I'm Walkin'   I've Been Down That Road Before   I've Got A Right To Cry   I've Got My Future On Ice   I've Got Rights   I've Loved You All Over The World   If I Were A Carpenter   If The South Woulda Won   If You've Got The Money (i've Got The Time)   In the Arms of Cocaine   In The First Place   Is This Goodbye   It Don't Take But One Mistake   It's All Over But The Crying   Jambalaya   Jambalaya (On the Bayou)   Jesus Don't Give Up On Me   Jesus Is A Soul Man   Just Another Town   Just Enough to Get in Trouble   Just Like Me   Just Waitin'   Kaw-liga   Kaw-Liga [Acoustic Version][#]   Keep The Change   Kind Of Woman I Got   Kiowa Jones   Last Love Song   Last Pork Chop   Last Pork Chop (Acoustic)   Leave Them Boys Alone   Let's Talk It Over Again   Life Gets Tee-Jus Don't It   Liquor to Like Her   Little Boy's Prayer   Little Drummer Boy   Lone Wolf   Lonely Street   Lonesome Blues   Long Black Limousine   Long Black Veil   Long Gone Lonesome Blues   Long Time Gone   Loser   Losing You   Lost Highway   Love M.D.   Lovesick Blues   Low As A Man Can Go   Made in the Shade   Make The World Go Away   Making Believe   Man Is On His Own   Mansion On The Hill   May You Never Be Alone   Men With Broken Hearts   Mighty Oak Trees   Mind Your Own Business   Moanin' The Blues   Money Can't Buy Happiness   Montana Cafe   Montana Song   Montgomery in the Rain   Montgomery in the Rain   Moods Of Mary   Move It on Over   Mr. lincon   Mule Skinner Blues   My Bucket's Got A Hole In It   My Girl [#]   My Heart Won't Let Me Go   My Heart Would Know   My Hometown Circle R   My Name Is Bocephus   My Son Calls Another Man Daddy   My Sweet Love Ain't Around   Naked Women and Beer   Name Dropper   Never Again (Will I Knock On Your Door)   Next Time I Say Goodbye I'm Leaving   Night Train To Memphis   Nighttime And My Baby   No Letter Today   No Meaning And No End   Nobody's Child   North To Alaska   Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)   O.d.'d In Denver   O.D.d in Denver   Old Before My Time   Old Flame New Fire   Old Frank   Old Habits   Old Nashville Cowboys   Old School   On Susan's Floor   On Trial   Once And For All   Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line   Orange Blossom Special   Outlaw Women   Paying On Time   Peace Will Come   Picture From Life's Other Side   Please Help Me I'm Falling   Please Make Up Your Mind   Pressure Is On   Pride's Not Hard To Swallow   Prison Of Memories   Promises   Queen Of My Heart   Rainin' In My Heart   Rainmaker   Rainy Night In Georgia   Rainy Night in Georgia [*]   Ramblin' In My Shoes   Ramblin' Man   Ready To Go Home   Red, White & Pink Slip Blues   Red, White & Pink-Slip Blues   Removing The Shadow   Ring Of Fire   River   Rock In My Shoe   Rockin' Chair Money   Salt Lake City   Same Old Story   Satin Sheets   Satin Sheets [#]   Send Me Some Lovin'   Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On   Settin' The Woods On Fire   She   She Thinks I Still Care   She Went A Little Bit Farther   Simple Man   Singing The Blues   So Easy To Forgive Her (so Hard To Forget)   So Sad (to Watch Good Love Go Bad)   Someone To Give My Love To   Something To Think About   Sometimes I Feel Like Joe Montana   Sounds Like Justice   Southern Thunder   Splish Splash   Standing In The Shadows   Standing in the Shadows of Love   Stock Market Blues   Stoned At The Jukebox   Stop And Think It Over   Storms Never Last   Streets Of Laredo   Sweet Dreams   Sweet Home Alabama   Take Back Our Country   Take These Chains from My Heart   Tee Tot Song   Ten Ton Load   Tennesee Stud Lyrics   Tennessee Flat Top Box   Tennessee River   Tennessee Stud   Tennessee Waltz   Tennessee Waltz [#]   Texas Women   Thanks a Lot   That's How I Wanted It To Be   The Air That I Breathe   The American Dream   The American Way   The Blizzard   The Conversation   The Cow Turd Blues   The Little Drummer Boy   The Long Black Veil   The Nashville Scene   The New South   The Night Time and My Baby   The Ride   The River   The Same Old Story   Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye   There Goes My Everything   There Must Be A Better Way To Live   There's A Tear In My Beer   There's Gotta Be Much More To Life Than You   These Boots Are Made For Walkin'   They All Want To Go Wild (And I Want To Go Home)   They'll Never Take Her Love From Me   Thirsty   Three Day Trip   Three Miles To Right   Time To Sing   To Love Somebody   Together Again   Too Many Parties Too Many Pals   Too Soon To Think Of Love Again   Uncle Pen   Understand Your Man   Wabash Cannonball   Wait For The Light To Shine   Walk On By   Walkin' To New Orleans   Waylon's Guitar   We Can Work It All Out   Wealth Won't Save Your Soul   Weary Blues From Waitin'   Weather Man   Weatherman   Wedding Bells   What A Heck Of A Mess   What We Used To Hang On To Is Gone   What's on the Bar   When I Stop Dreaming   When You're Tired Of Breaking Other Hearts   Where Do I Go from Here   Where Do I Go From Here   Where He's Going I've Already Been   Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies   Whiskey Bent And Hell Bound   Whole Lotta Loving   Why Can't We All Just Get a Long Neck   Why Don't You Love Me   Why Should We Try Anymore   Why Should We Try Anymore   Wild and Blue   Wild Thing   Window Shopping   Window Up Above   Wolverton Mountain   Wolverton Mountain   Woman On The Run   Women I've Never Had   Wrong Doin' Man   X-Treme Country   You Can't Take My Memories Of You   You Win Again   You're Gonna Change   You're Gonna Change (or I'm Gonna Leave)   Young Country   Young Man's Fancy   Your Cheatin' Heart   Your Love's Like A Stranger   Your Turn To Cry   Yours And His

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